WOMEN AS JURORS
PROPOSED STATE LOTTERY. £2 TAX ON BACHELORS. PERTH, Oct. 22. Tine Jury Amendment Bill which proposes to abolish property qualifications for special juries, and permit women to serve on juries on applica-tion-for enrolment on the jury list, passed the second reading in the Legislative Council, hilt in a very thin House.
The Bill will probably be amended out of recognition. A .Scree fight is raging around the Slate Lottery Bill. All churches, reform organisations, and women’s associations, have already passed resolutions protesting, against tire Bill, which has yet to run the gauntlet of the Legislative Council. In the Legislative Council, when on the Arbitration Bill, Air Lovekin proposed a stamp tax of £2 per week on all single men earning the basic wage if fixed at £6. Tf a single man marries, his tax for the previous t\vo years to he returned to him; otherwise the money is to go to the State to ease the burden of married men with children.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9850, 31 October 1924, Page 2
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